Upgrade from 9.1.xxx to 9.2.x

[udi]

Hi,

I´m new to bas4free. I´ve been running a small nas server with nas4free embedded installed to a 1GB usb flash stick. It´s the latest 9.1.x Version. It runs pretty well? Would an upgrade to 9.2. via web gui be problematic?
Thanks for answers.!

[kenZ71]

For me the upgrade was easy. Download the new code then select upgrade firmware from the system menu, follow the prompts & done.

Having a fresh backup on hand, just in case, us always a good idea!

[udi]

Hello,
thanks for your answer.
Just quoting The readme/changelog for 9.2.x
"Only try to upgrade if you know that your boot partition is 1G or more in size, otherwise a install from scratch is the recommended way,
sorry for inconvenience."
To be more precise: Is upgrading from 9.1.x to 9.2.x via web gui embedded installation on a 1GB stick risky?
Thanks a lot.

[lawrencem]

I just upgraded my NAS4Free box from 9.1.0.1 to 9.2.0.1 (rev 943). I used the GUI to upgrade. The machine is a supermicro X10SLL motherboard with an intel i3-4130 CPU and 16GB ECC memory. I am using a 16GB flash drive for a boot disk and two 3TB SATA drives in a ZFS mirror for data. I have two issues. First, I can't reboot. If I reboot, it says it can't find the configuration and halts. If I press the button on the front of the machine, then it will boot normally. The other problem is my UPS I have an APC UPS with a usb interface. It it on interface ugen0.5 (ugen0.5: <Back-UPS ES 600G FW905.W1 .D USB FWW1 APC> at usbus0, cfg=0 md=HOST spd=LOW (1.5Mbps) pwr=ON (2mA)) but upcmon can't connect to it. I am using the usbhid-ups driver. I get these messages on the console: Communications with UPS ups@localhost lost If I disable and reenable the service, this message appears at the top of the web page: Error: The changes could not be applied (error code 1). if I run the driver manually, it seems to work.

nas4free: nut # ./usbhid-ups -a ups -DDDD
Network UPS Tools - Generic HID driver 0.38 (2.7.1)
USB communication driver 0.32
0.000000 debug level is '4'
0.002968 upsdrv_initups...
0.005695 Checking device (051D/0002) (/dev/usb//dev/ugen0.5)
0.043185 - VendorID: 051d
0.043231 - ProductID: 0002
0.043264 - Manufacturer: APC
0.043271 - Product: Back-UPS ES 600G FW:905.W1 .D USB FW:W1
0.043278 - Serial Number: 4B1323P23326
0.043311 - Bus: /dev/usb
0.043317 Trying to match device
0.043391 Device matches
...

These messages are in system.log
Feb 9 12:48:14 nas4free root: /etc/rc.d/nut: WARNING: failed to start nut
Feb 9 12:48:14 nas4free root: Failed to start service nut
Feb 9 12:48:14 nas4free root: nut_upslog service started
Feb 9 12:48:14 nas4free root: nut_upsmon service started
Feb 9 12:46:35 nas4free upsmon[5261]: UPS [ups@localhost]: connect failed: Connection failure: Connection refused

Interestingly, in upsd.conf, there is a line:
LISTEN 10.100.0.142 198.105.251.24 3493

10.100.0.142 is my NAS4Free box. I have no idea what the 198.105.251.24 address is for. Luckily, it doesn't appear to be reachable on the Internet.

[apollo567]

try to reinstall ur 943 from scratch and then restore your config file. May solve issues.....

[ku-gew]

I just upgraded my NAS4Free box from 9.1.0.1 to 9.2.0.1 (rev 943). I used the GUI to upgrade. The machine is a supermicro X10SLL motherboard with an intel i3-4130 CPU and 16GB ECC memory. I am using a 16GB flash drive for a boot disk and two 3TB SATA drives in a ZFS mirror for data. I have two issues. First, I can't reboot.

Have you read the posts of this thread? have you checked whether your partition (no one mentioned "total device size", only "partition" was mentioned) was 1 GB or more?

I think you had a standard partition of 200 MB and you have to reflash the USB key.

[F8BOE]

Hello all,

No problem here also.
I saved the config file as "config-9.1.0.1.847LastGood" and loaded the embedded image 9.2.0.1.943 from the webGUI, it took 5 minutes and the Server was up and running with no need to finetune anything in the config file.

HP Vectra VL, Pentium II 400 MHz, 768 MB RAM (PC100), 3.0 TB HDD capacity, NAS4Free 9.2.0.1.943

Ciao @+

[udi]

O.k.- I´ll try the same as you F8BOE;)

[udi]

Hi,

It Worked perfectly.

Tanks a Lot!

[sunny72]

Hi all,

I've made an update from 9.1.xxx to 9.2.x, too. This update seems to be working preety good, I've checked it on the Web GUI side in GENERAL tab. The new firmware version shows 9.2.x. But I saw, that my www folder is gone (with owncloud). Also some scripts defined in the root home directory are deleted. Does anybody knows this issue? Maybe I've missed something. Actually I did not a backup of these files, but that's okay (just test files)...

Regards
sunny

[raulfg3]

But I saw, that my www folder is gone (with owncloud). Also some scripts defined in the root home directory are deleted. Does anybody knows this issue? Maybe I've missed something. Actually I did not a backup of these files, but that's okay (just test files)...

this is normal when you upgrade nas4Free because your boot parttition is deleted and recreated. (not happend when updated)

To avoid this problem in future, please create your onwcloud inside a jail ( and jail in data disk), and save your script to your data disk.

and , next time read the red words in the upgrade topic: viewtopic.php?f=78&t=5890

[sunny72]

this is normal when you upgrade nas4Free because your boot parttition is deleted and recreated. (not happend when updated)

To avoid this problem in future, please create your onwcloud inside a jail ( and jail in data disk), and save your script to your data disk.

and , next time read the red words in the upgrade topic: viewtopic.php?f=78&t=5890

Hi raulfg3,

thanks for your answer. Yes, I will read this instructions the next time I will update my NAS4Free.

Kind regards
sunny

[robertogp]

Hola,, tengo instalado el NAS4FREE VERSION 9.1.0.1 FULL 64 BITS,, quiero actualizarla a la versión 9.2 64BITS como hago ??
ya baje la ISO DE LA VERSION 9.2 Y LA GRABE EN UN CD..
reinicio el nas4free con el CD Y QUE HAGO ??
GRACIAS
ROBERTO

[raulfg3]

Busca en el menú la opción de update